TT #87 · Parshas Tazria · Aliyah 1 · Passuk 3
English: The priest shall examine the affection on the skin: if hair in the affected patch has turned white and the affection appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a leprous affection on the skin; and if the priest sees that it is a leprous affection, the priest shall pronounce the person impure.
Chabad.org — Chumash, English translation + Rashi for Vayikra 13:3
Torah Temimah cites Sifra (Toras Kohanim) for the priest’s authority to assign distinct statuses to distinct signs.
Sifra — Vayikra 13, Midrash Sefer
English: “And he shall examine it.” One might think the priest may not declare a person quarantined for one sign and definitively impure for another, or definitively impure for both; the text says “lesion, and he shall examine it,” and “tzaraas, and he shall examine it.”
Holistic examination
The priest may assign the appropriate status to each qualifying sign; the repeated wording supports distinct evaluations rather than one all-or-nothing status.